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Amidst several product safety controversies between the two countries, US government health officials said that they would block shipments of several types of China-farmed seafood because they were found to be contaminated with drugs banned from use in farmed seafood. But the officials said there had been no reports of illnesses and the products did not pose any immediate health risks. A Chinese quality inspection official said that China cannot accept the indiscriminate and automatic detention of Chinese products, but admitted that a "handful of Chinese seafood enterprises" had problems with quality control